Cut-out film blanket-strip for autograph-cameras.



UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

HENRY J. isn-OWN, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

CUT-OUT FILM BLAN-'KET-STRIP FOB AUTOGRAPH-CAMERAS.

Application flied March 30, 1915.

'o all whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, HENRY J. BnowN, a

Subject of the King of England, residing atand useful Improvements in Cut-Out Film Blanket-Strips for Autog1a] )liCameras, of which the following is a full, clear, and eX- act specification.

This invention relates to autograph cameras, and especially to the films used with such cameras. Cameras of this kind are provided with openings in the back portions of their casings, substantially as disclosed in my pending application, filed February 6, 1915, Ser. No, 6568 for permitting an'inscription on a transparent plate fitted in said opening to be printed upon the film at the time or immediately after each picture is taken. Films now in general use are mounted upon blanket strips which extend along the back of the films and project be-v yond the ends thereof for attachment to the winding spools in the cameras.

The object of the present invention is to provide a blanket strip for films which wiil permit the printing of' inscriptions on the film from the'back of. the camera.

The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute a part of this specification, and then more specifically defined in the claims at the end of the description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts througliout the several views: Figure l is a plan View ofa portion at one en`d of a blanket strip constructed in accordance with this invention, Fig. 2 is an edge View of the blanketstrip and film, part of the strip being shown in section and Fig. 3 is an enlargedbroken.

section through a film and slotted blanket strip, the latter` having a covering lfor the slot coated with a substance which may be displaced to permit light to penetrate when scratched with a pointed instrument. i

The film 3, which when in use is wound off of one spool of a camera .and onto another in the well-known manner, 'is locatedfjust within the back of the camera casing, the blanket strip 4 being interposed between'lthe film and the back of the casing.

The blanket strip is made of paper which is prepared in such a way as to prevent light Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1917. serial No. 18,098. ",y

from passing through it, in order to avoid clouding or fogging of the film by reason of light which may filter through the back of the casing. Said blanket strip is also used for supporting the film in its travel from one spool to the other in the camera, and for attachment to the spools without danger of exposing the film. From the nature of the blanket strip, it will be seen that if it is made imperforate, it will prevent the printing of .autograph inscriptions on the back of the film through the opening 2. I, therefore, propose to provide the blanket strip with slots or openings 5 and 6, at suitable intervals for registering with the autograph printing openings in the backs of camera easings. As illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, the openings 5 extend across or transversely of the strip near the ends of the several sections of the film, and are designed to be used with an autograph printing opening in the back of a camera for placing the autograph inscription at the end of each film section or picture. The openings 6 extend longitudinally of the blanket strip and are arranged y slots 6 in the blanket strip will register consecutively as the film and strip are fed from one spool to the other. lt will thus be seen that when each film section is in position for taking a picture from the front of the camera, the slots 5 and 6 in the blanket strip will be in position to register with the transverse and longitudinal autograph printing openings in the back of the camera, so that either of said openings may be utilized for marking or inscribing the film section, according to the position of the camera when the picture is taken, thc transverse, opening 2 and slot 5 being useil when the picture is taken with the can'iera arranged on end, and the iongitudinal printing opening (not shown) and slot 6 being used when the picture is taken with the camera resting on its side.

The shape` of the slots 5 and 6 mav be varied as desired. the oval or elliptical forni the encl and a longitudinal slot along the illustrated being onl),v one of many designs side of each film sectionr` for the purpose which ina)v he used. The slots 5 and 6 may specified.

lie covered on the outside with suitable The combination, with an opaque 20 5 paper `srunnneil to the outside of the blanket strip for photographic films sairl blanket strip` said paper to be coated or blanket strip having slots therein for autotreated with a solntionor substance 8, Fig. graph printing from the back of Jthe Camera, l which when srratehed with a pointed inof pieces of paper (loweringsaid slots and struinent will permit light to penetrate for having an opaque coating preparation which 25 1u printing an autograph insoriptionon the may be displaced to permit light to penefilm. i trate when scratched' with a pointed instru- I l a ving thus described my invention7 what ment. l claim as new and desire to secure by liae'tln testimony whereof l have signed my tors Patent of the United States is: naine to this vspeoieajzion.

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